Boots to make redundant up to 700 non-store members of staff

One of the UK’s largest pharmaceutical retailers has just revealed plans to make up to 700 members of staff redundant, although customer-facing roles are likely to be safe from this cost-cutting measure, a business report has revealed.

The move is part of a plan by the company to “address the rapidly changing needs of its customers and patients and continue the transformation of its businesses”.

This is expected to be achieved through a combination of natural attrition, redeployment, retraining and redundancy. However, the company added that further resources will be needed in certain areas, such as digital and the delivery of the new customer offer.

Simon Roberts, President of Boots, said: “While we have continued to deliver a solid performance in recent years, despite challenging market conditions, we cannot be complacent and must be stronger and more agile going forward, to meet the fast changing expectations of our customers.

“We have not taken these decisions lightly, and understand the impact that today’s announcement may have on our colleagues. We are fully committed to doing everything we can to support all our people as we transform Boots and strive to be even better for our customers and patients.”

Every company, regardless of its size and scope, that undergoes such massive changes in its organizational structure should first and foremost implement a very solid and reliable workforce management system, capable of coping with the challenges of adding and removing so many employees from the firm’s ranks.

Time & Attendance UK is a market leader in the time and attendance, access control and personnel management solutions’ segment. Our position and proven experience in the field enable us to thoroughly customize our systems in order to meet all of your requirements, whether you’re an enterprise customer with multiple sites or a smaller business.

If you want to find out more about the range of affordable, reliable solutions provided by Time & Attendance UK, just contact our dedicated product team, they’ll be more than happy to answer any question you might have.